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Recently a new Worm has emerged as one of the biggest threats for the Windows PCs. It’s been known as Conficker, Kido or Downadup and has infected nine million computers to date. This worm can allow the spammers and phishers to gain total control of the infected PC and trace all the internet activities. It can be used by the cyber criminals as a potential tool to gain access to the user’s confidential information such as credit card number, account number and banking transactions.

The worst thing is that the whole process is 100 percent transparent to the user. This worm has got a very speedy performance with regards to replication. It spreads in the networks rapidly and in no time obstructs the bandwidth completely. As a result the whole network traffic gets jammed and the spammers can reroute it for any disguise activities. Kido only infects Windows systems. The Windows operating system is so vulnerable that it allows this worm to infect the kernel, system’s main files and registry.

The Worm is very intelligent and follows different patterns while replicating. So it cannot be stopped completely by any single anti-virus system. The only way to stop it to get the new security patch and virus removal tool that is launched by Microsoft. Of course it only affects those running Windows, as people with the Apple MacBook running the Mac OS X operating system remain unaffected. The worm remains a major threat and is currently estimated to have infected up to 15 million computers worldwide.

Tags for this article: conficker, downadup, kido, malware, pc, Security, virus, windows, worm
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One of the most attractive charms of Apple Safari for Mac OS X 10.5 is its private browsing feature, which is expected to keep internet surfing private. According to Apple, the Private Browsing feature leaves no traces regarding the web browsing done by a particular user. Normally Safari stores all the information about websites a particular user has visited. It also keeps information that has been entered in the search bars, forms and user id, but if the Private Browsing is on (which can be found under the Edit menu) then such information is not stored and another user cannot trace the web activities of the previous users.

Apple also says that if the Private Browsing is off then the Reset Safari option can clear all the cache but this is not completely true. Clearing the cache or browsing the Web in private mode clears all the site tracks but only for a normal user who knows how to work on the Safari’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) but one can still go beyond that and recover all the site track bypassing the Private Browsing and Reset Safari functions. If you share your computer, then erasing your browsing record can be almost as important as the role the Symantec Norton Internet Security software plays on your computer. You can go to the terminal and type the following command in order to track all the web activities:

dscacheutil -cachedump -entries Host

This will list all the entries with time and access date. To completely get rid of it you have to manually enter the following command:

dscacheutil -flushcache

Tags for this article: internet, mac, pc, private, safari, Security, tracking safari private browsing
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